TV Licence and iPlayer

[Robson Valley]

You cannot watch television free from advertising? You have to buy a licence to watch anything? How quaint.

I pay subscriptions for satellite radio and television which I find understandable for the services provided.
SatRad is 120 channels of interference-free, digital service.
The television is several hundred channels of vision and music. I don't know how many. OK by me.
Now within that TV service, I can buy more as movie channels. Some do, some don't.

 

[dewi]

We have them available here. Multiple commercial outlets that you can subscribe to, many for a low fee, to receive hundreds of channels and back catalogues of films, television programmes and documentaries. You can upgrade the packages to include sports, newish films and specialist content, or more accurately adult channels.

Problem is, the majority of these services allow you to watch BBC1 and BBC2 in some shape or form, so it falls foul of the licence. Arguably because of the iPlayer, even an internet connection and a computer gives you the same sort of services, so falls foul of the licence. It would appear that different areas have different responses when you claim not to watch television. Some are saying they are left alone, others are repeatedly hassled, either through the mail or on the doorstep.

I'm all for having the whole BBC account thingy... sounds fantastic... because if you don't have an account, you can't watch the content. No content, no licence fee. Should really be that simple and people will have the right to choose what they watch or more importantly the type of broadcaster they wish to support. If the majority choose not to register for an account, the BBC will either be forced to change its programming, or more likely it will cease to exist (at least in its present form). As with thousands of other broadcasters and content providers, none of them have an automatic right to exist and none should be immune from public opinion.

 

[woodstock]

I cannot believe you are all still debating this subject these people pray on the ill informed and others they can bully into giving them money without understanding fully what they are paying for shame on those that do pay knowing the background of this vile and corrupt company. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/31/bbc-admits-that-tv-d.html